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Re: ext3/ext2 kernel bug with umlauts?



* Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> [2008-09-08 16:36]:
> I've tried to create a reproduction case.  The following filesystem
> image needs to be unpacked onto a 6 gigabyte (or larger) partition,
> after uncompressing it via bunzip2.  (i.e., via "bunzip2 <
> testbig.e2i.bz2 | dd of=/dev/sdXX bs=4k").  It works just fine for me,
> but it's created using Michael's directory which he dumped out via
> debugfs, and with the superblock hash_seed set to his filesystems
> hash_seed.  I don't see the problem on my x86 laptop, but if it shows
> up on the arm, then it must be an architecture specific bug, which is
> useful to know.

I unpacked this on an armel system and can confirm that the filesystem
is totally messed up.  Mounting it as ext2 works.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/


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